Muffin Tops for Art

I actually don't eat a lot of baked goods. It's not good for me since I am diabetic. However, Art  loves having a blueberry muffin with his breakfast and mom has one as a morning snack after working in her garden. We do also occasionally share some with a friend, neighbor or relative. I always double the recipe. I figure if I'm going to go through the trouble of making it, I might as well make it worth my while. The recipe I use is King Arthur's Famous Department Store Blueberry Muffins. 

I can't say it's necessarily healthy. I've read that muffins are not a healthy option for breakfast, but at least I know what's going into it. The problem with store bought muffins are that they are huge and full of fat, etc. etc.

My muffins are smaller (probably half the size of most store bought).

Now comes the tricky part. Art decided he liked a crispy muffin top so he toasts his muffins in the toaster oven. He'd then eat the bottom and save the top to eat like a cookie. 😄

He asked me to try and keep the blueberries off the top of the muffin batter. He would always select the muffins that had the least amount of blueberries at the top when I made them.

Well, blueberries have a tendency to keep poking through the top. 

So then it occurred to me that I should just keep a bit of the batter on the side before I mixed in the blueberries. 

Then I would put the blueberry batter into the muffin cups and add the NON-blueberry batter over the ones that Art would keep for himself.

OK... Some blueberries still managed to poke through, but it was good enough.

I did have these three rejects.

I think they were sugar chips that didn't dissolve (I think). 

Whatever the case, Art says he will sacrifice himself and eat those anyway.